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by David Greer • September 8, 2016 • Comments Off on Sponsor your local schools in the Kentucky High School Journalism Association

Dear Kentucky publisher or editor: The Kentucky High School Journalism Association, founded 20 years ago by the Kentucky Press Association, needs your help. For a modest sum of $50, your newspaper can sponsor your area high schools in KHSJA. It’s…

Based on the weather forecast, the KPA Board just voted to cancel the convention beginning today (Thursday). Please pass along to any staff who might have been coming to the KPA Ad Contest banquet that the banquet tonight and all…

by admin • December 28, 2015 • Comments Off on List of winners for both 2015 Contests are now available

The list of winners in the NEWS Contest is now available online at www.kypress.com/newswinners Also the ADVERTISING Contest winners are available at www.kypress.com/adwinners If you are a NEWS contest winner please send your picture to newswinners@kypress.com – feel free to…

by admin • December 3, 2015 • Comments Off on Who gets it right? In 2015, I visited a lot of Successful Papers

I’ve been training and advising newspapers for 21 years, every since Larry Smith asked me to come look over his operation in LaFollette, Tennessee back in 1994. I worked with more than 100 papers in my travels this year, not…

by David Spencer • November 17, 2015 • Comments Off on The best word to describe Minnesota Newspapers… PHENOMENAL

There’s a reason I love my work so much. There’s a reason that there are folks around the country waiting for me to return their calls while I’m writing this column. They can wait. This is more important. I love…

by admin • October 21, 2015 • Comments Off on Critiquing Pages; To the readers, it’s almost all about the stories

In October, I traveled to Albuquerque, where I gave the Saturday keynote address at the New Mexico Press Association Convention. On Sunday morning, I caught a flight to Orlando, where I spoke at an international conference made up of newspaper…

by David Thompson • October 8, 2015 • Comments Off on ‘There is no better ship; there could be no better name’

USS Kentucky crew looking for KPA members to take trip Kentucky Governor William O. Bradley’s statement, made after witnessing the launching of the battleship Kentucky in 1898, is equally applicable today: There is no better ship; there could be no…

by David Thompson • October 8, 2015 • Comments Off on KPA lobbyists named tops in Kentucky by Southern Political Report

Top Shelf Lobby is the top lobbying firm in Kentucky according to a report in the Southern Political Report Summer 2015 Edition. The periodical said the rankings are based on results compiled through an online survey sent to lobbyists and…